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15-letter words containing r, e, s, t, m

  • imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
  • imperial system — a system of measurement units, including the foot, pound, and second, as well as miles and yards
  • imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
  • imperscriptible — not supported by written authority
  • importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
  • imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
  • imprescriptible — not subject to prescription.
  • imprescriptibly — In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.
  • impressionistic — a person who follows or adheres to the theories, methods, and practices of impressionism, especially in the fields of painting, music, or literature.
  • improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
  • impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • incrementalists — Plural form of incrementalist.
  • indeterministic — the doctrine that human actions, though influenced somewhat by preexisting psychological and other conditions, are not entirely governed by them but retain a certain freedom and spontaneity.
  • inertial system — a frame of reference in which a body remains at rest or moves with constant linear velocity unless acted upon by forces: any frame of reference that moves with constant velocity relative to an inertial system is itself an inertial system.
  • informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
  • instrumentalism — the variety of pragmatism developed by John Dewey, maintaining that the truth of an idea is determined by its success in the active solution of a problem and that the value of ideas is determined by their function in human experience.
  • instrumentalist — a person who plays a musical instrument.
  • instrumentality — the quality or state of being instrumental.
  • instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
  • insurance stamp — an insurance contribution
  • intemperateness — The quality of being intemperate.
  • intercomparison — mutual comparison
  • interferometers — Plural form of interferometer.
  • interim results — A company's interim results are the set of figures, published outside the regular times, that show whether it has achieved a profit or a loss.
  • interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
  • intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
  • interventionism — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
  • intransigentism — the policy or set of principles of an intransigent
  • intransmissible — incapable of being transmitted
  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
  • isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
  • isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • james rainwater — (Leo) James, 1917–86, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1975.
  • jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
  • job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
  • junior minister — politics
  • kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
  • lamb's-quarters — the pigweed, Chenopodium album.
  • lamp-post error — fencepost error
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • laser chemistry — the use of a laser to initiate and control chemical reactions.
  • laser treatment — any of various medical and surgical techniques using lasers, such as the removal of small growths
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
  • little missouri — a river in the NW United States, rising in NE Wyoming and flowing NE into the Missouri through N Dakota. 560 miles (900 km) long.
  • lower criticism — a form of Biblical criticism having as its purpose the reconstruction of the original texts of the books of the Bible.
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